The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Coordinating your gestures with someone’s subtle behaviors, can help you gain understanding, realize comfortable compatibility, and develop mutual trust.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all… — Andrea Zittel Copy Share Image
Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think it's my job to like any character I play - to understand and appreciate a character, to look at the… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name)… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's… — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore,… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn,… — Donna Fargo Copy Share Image
Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed? — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
Success...Is all about being able to extend love to people...not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance is called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest… — Carol Zaleski Copy Share Image
Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
